George Wells Beadle
Academic
1903 – 1989
Who was George Wells Beadle?
George Wells Beadle was an American scientist in the field of genetics, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel laureate who with Edward Lawrie Tatum discovered the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells in 1958.
Beadle and Tatum's key experiments involved exposing the bread mold Neurospora crassa to x-rays, causing mutations. In a series of experiments, they showed that these mutations caused changes in specific enzymes involved in metabolic pathways. These experiments led them to propose a direct link between genes and enzymatic reactions, known as the One gene-one enzyme hypothesis.
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- Born
- Oct 22, 1903
Wahoo - Religion
- Christianity
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Cornell University
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- Employment
- University of Chicago
- California Institute of Technology
- Lived in
- United States of America
- Nebraska
- Died
- Jun 9, 1989
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on July 23, 2013
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